Issue Articles — Features
Carnival Tales: A Multitude of Local Minstrels Spin Tales of Mardi Gras of Yore
A multitude of local minstrels spin tales of Mardi Gras of yore. SEWING FEVER: BO DOLLiS AND MONK BOUDREAUX Big Chief Monk Boudreaux tries to describe the sewing fever […]
Brass Bands After World War II: A Crossroads
Editor’s note: Although no one has pinpointed when the music we now can jazz coalesced into an idiom, a September 1995 symposium held in New Orleans celebrated the 100-year mark. […]
Henry Butler’s Split Personality
New Orleans born pianist Henry Butler is both R&B and jazz, teacher and student, local and expatriate, disciplined and spontaneous – in other words, a player For All Seasons. […]
One Wedding and A Funeral
The Marriage of Ernie K-Doe and the Funeral of Record Ron “This is history being made again,” said Ernie K-Doe as he was about to get his second mother-in-law. […]
Armstrong Uber Alles
I like to think that the “Louis” in Louisiana is derived from the name of the King of Jazz rather from that of some remote Bourbon monarch. By that, of […]
Meet Kenny Wayne Shepherd
In the journeyman, dues-paying, endless one-nighter world of blues, isn’t nineteen years old a little young to strike it big? Some would say you’re supposed to suffer a little, or […]
OffBeat Editorial: Considering the Amusement Tax
For as long as OffBeat has been around — seven years this past August — we’ve heard complaints about the city’s amusement tax from music club owners who say that […]
Corey Harris: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
In the hands of wise-beyond-his-years Corey Harris, traditional acoustic blues marches toward the 21st century. On this Tuesday night in early October the Mermaid Lounge is a sanctuary. The […]
